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Prison exchange program makes students and prisoners peers in learning
Posted Jun 18, 2012
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Metro
Fifteen years after its first class, the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program has spread way beyond its Philadelphia birthplace. Lori Pompa, a criminal justice instructor at Temple who created the program said, “The outside students aren't there to study the inside students. They're there to learn. All participants are in class together, as peers." These relationships lead to a better understanding of an array of social issues.